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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Power, Character

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

Words, Often, Action

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Important, Importance

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

Humor, Good, Truth

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong

Hurt, Two, Losing

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
Marilyn Monroe

Father, Different, House

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Money, Care

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

Health, Care, Country

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama

History, Simple, Same

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire

Marriage, Same, Divorce

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Between, Difference, Oh

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke

Religion, Control, Used

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
John Wooden

Good, Away, Around

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison

Impossible, Become, Place

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Best, Unexpected

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Sleep, Father

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Happy, Saying

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James A. Baldwin

Mind, Person, Country

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
Hillary Clinton

Religion, Rule, Principles

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neat, Knees, Ankles

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, Judge

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus

Play, Child, Himself

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

War, Makes, Progress

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Self, Advice

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave Barry

Percent, Accidents, Falling

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft

Truth, Joy, Depressing

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr

Poetry, Used, Language

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Great, Heart, Brain

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot

Woman, Enough, Common

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

Life, Justice, Nothing

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